During World War II there were camps across America that held Nazi prisoners of war. One of the more notable camps was Camp Aliceville located in Aliceville, Alabama. Prisoners at this camp were treated exceptionally well due to America following the rules of the Geneva Convention. This event in history is often compared to the way prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were treated in the early 2000’s. Nazi prisoners of war during World War II in America were treated much better than the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. The treatment between these two groups of prisoners varied in the food they were given, the activities they were allowed to partake in, and the labor they were forced to do. The treatment of Nazi prisoners in American prisoner of war …show more content…
The Nazi prisoners were allowed free time and granted the choices from all kinds of activities to involve themselves with. The Nazi prisoners had two orchestras, a school where they could learn a variety of topics and receive credit for them, a soccer team, and even their own newspaper1. The prisoners were kept busy with all these activities to choose between. Hitler even sent over $12,000 to Camp Aliceville to open an art exhibition for the prisoners1. The United States went above and beyond the Geneva Convention rules in treating their prisoners well. The Prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were not allowed this kind of free time and given the same kinds of activities to involve themselves with. These prisoners were kept in cells or cages and were often interrogated very harshly by the prison guards. Some of the interrogation techniques used in Guantanamo Bay included escalating pressure tactics, extended isolation, twenty hour long interrogations, painful stress positions, yelling, hooding, and manipulation of diet, environment and stress2. This is what most of the prisoners time consisted of while being kept in Guantanamo Bay. Some prisoners even developed hallucinations, nightmares, anxiety, and depression from these interrogation techniques2. Nazi prisoners lived a life of luxury with all the activities they were allowed to engage in compared to what the Guantanamo Bay prisoners were forced to